#precious

How I wish you could have known me in my strength. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #grace #inspirational

The youngest Merrivilee, bursting into the room some time later, found them seated side by side on the sofa. 'Buddle said I wasn't to disturb you, but I knew that was fudge,' he said scornfully. 'Cousin Alverstoke, there is someting I particularly wanted to ask you!' He broke off, perceiving suddenly, and with disfavour, that his Cousin Alverstoke had an arm round Frederica. Revolted by such a betrayal of unmanliness, he bent a disapproving look upon his idol and demanded: 'Why are you cuddling Frederica, sir?' 'Because we are going to be married,' replied his lordship calmly. 'It's obligatory, you know. One is expected to -er - cuddle the lady one is going to marry.' 'Oh!' said Felix. 'Well, I won't ask anyone to marry me , if that's what you have to do! I just say I never thought that you sir would have-' Again he broke off, as a thought struck him. 'Will that make her a - a She-Marquis? Oh, Jessamy, did you hear that? Frederica is going to be a She-Marquis!' 'What you mean is a Marchioness, you ignorant little ape!' replied his austere brother ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#heyer #humor #precious #humor

As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#life #precious-life #wine #life

Life is very precious. ↗

— Brian Harvey

#precious #very

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anything #easier #everybody #going #hard

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#ensure #every #integrity #moral #moral obligation

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#every #every day #gift #given #grateful

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #care #children #humanity #i

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary